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|author=Ruth Binney

|title=The English Countryside (Amazing and Extraordinary Facts)

|rating=4

|genre=Animals and Wildlife

|summary=I live in the countryside and spend as much time as the weather will allow exploring it, so the chance to read Ruth Binney's ''The English Countryside'' was too good to be missed. We've met Ruth [[The Allotment Experience by Ruth Binney|before]] at Bookbag and we know that she writes well and interestingly, but just one thing was worrying me about this book. It's a hardback and beautifully presented but its the size of book that you slip into a pocket or handbag. Would it be rather superficial?

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1910821012</amazonuk>

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|author=Tony Crabbe

|summary=Scotland 1122: A son is born to a warlord on the Scottish Islands. The warlord GilleBride, is a man who doesn't realise his glory is receding. One day the realisation does hit him, along with a Viking raid. In the heat of invasion his son, although only 15, must take over. Can a lad actually lead a people? History will tell and legend will embellish for that boy is Somerled and this is his story.

|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1782396586</amazonuk>

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~~|author=Peter Goes~~

~~|title=Timeline~~

~~|rating=3.5~~

~~|genre=Children's Non-Fiction~~

|summary=''Tick followed tock followed tick followed tock.'' Once, that is, we'd got over the Big Bang, which of course was silent. We flash forwards a few billion years to the creation of the earth, have a quick look at prehistory, then it's in with the world's happenings we can be sure of and date accurately. This book makes an attempt at conveying it all along one river of time – albeit with many tributaries – and with a strong visual style points us to all that is important about our past along the way. Flick through it backwards and you can recreate a different Guinness advert to the one I quoted – but it's probably worth a much longer look.

~~|amazonuk=<amazonuk>1776570693</amazonuk>~~

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